NEW DELHI: Chinese Ambassador Zhang Yan today got into a spat with a journalist over a wrong territorial map of India, during which he yelled "shut up" at the scribe. The map of India minus some parts of Kashmir and Arunachal was distributed by a state-owned Chinese company TBEA at a business function. Apart from Zhang, the event was attended by visiting Chinese Governor of Xinjiang province and senior officials from Ministry of...

BEIJING: China today sought to play down the hush-hush replacement of its previous ambassador to India just ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit, saying such things happen in diplomacy. An intense speculation surrounded China's ambassador to India, Wei Wei's, unusual departure ahead of the Chinese President's state visit on September 17. The sudden exit had caused speculation that he may have been recalled. "The nominations and dismissals do happen in...

HONG KONG: China has no plans to try and dominate the shipping lanes of the Indian Ocean, its ambassador to India said in Hong Kong today. "We don't have such an intention to establish a chain to encircle India," said ambassador Zhang Yan at a lunch held by the Asia Society in Hong Kong. "It's not in China's interest to undertake this kind of strategic move. We see India as our partner," he said, adding the speculation on a China policy of encirclement was "unfounded. " China's...

NEW DELHI: China today promised to provide adequate safety to Indians on its soil and said the recent incident in Yiwu will not be allowed to influence age-old friendly ties between the two countries. Giving this assurance to BJP MP Tarun Vijay, Chinese Ambassador to India Zhang Yan promised his best efforts to send back home the two traders who were recently attacked by locals in Yiwu city. "We are working to improve relations. India and China are engines...

PUNE: If you think that the Bollywood movies, with their potential for transporting the audience into a dream world of fantasy, would not be welcome in the Communist China, you could be wrong. It is just not Buddhism that ties the Chinese society with India but also the new breed of Bollywood movies that are playing a role in synthesising the cultural bonds between the two Asian giants and economic powers. "Bollywood films are very popular in...

PUNE: Chinese ambassador to India Zhang Yan on Wednesday said both the countries should step up "two-way investment" and create a sound environment for mutual economic cooperation and growth. "Two-way investment needs to be stepped up. More Chinese companies are now showing interest in investing in India," he said inaugurating an India-China centre here set up by US- based non-profit organisation Bridging Nations . Hailing the initiative to promote...

NEW DELHI: China and India, the two Asian trading giants, will initiate negotiations for a Regional Trading Arrangement (RTA) at a "suitable time", Chinese Ambassador to the country, Zhang Yan has said. China and India will work to expand mutual investment and initiate negotiations on RTA in a suitable time, Zhang said in his first public address after taking over as Beijing's new envoy to New Delhi . In 2003, India and China established a Joint Study...

AHMEDABAD: The India China Economic and Cultural Council (ICEC) will launch its Gujarat chapter in Ahmedabad on August 26. Zhang Yan , Chinese ambassador to India, will visit the city for the launch, said Jagat Shah, chairman of Gujarat chapter of ICEC. This will be ICEC's eighth office after it was set up in 1997. It has eight full-fledged offices in Delhi, Beijing, Mumbai, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Nantong. This will be Yan's first visit to Ahmedabad and he is...

BEIJING: China today sought to play down the hush-hush replacement of its previous ambassador to India just ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit, saying such things happen in diplomacy. An intense speculation surrounded China's ambassador to India, Wei Wei's, unusual departure ahead of the Chinese President's state visit on September 17. The sudden exit had caused speculation that he may have been recalled. "The nominations and dismissals do happen in...

PUNE: If you think that the Bollywood movies, with their potential for transporting the audience into a dream world of fantasy, would not be welcome in the Communist China, you could be wrong. It is just not Buddhism that ties the Chinese society with India but also the new breed of Bollywood movies that are playing a role in synthesising the cultural bonds between the two Asian giants and economic powers. "Bollywood films are very popular in...

VADODARA: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said China was keen to extend its cooperation with Gujarat in context of booming economy and ongoing industrial development. "Zhang Yan, Chinese High Commissioner to India, during his meeting with me in Gandhinagar two days ago, had expressed his desire for cooperation with a progressive state like Gujarat in economic and industrial sector along with cultural relations," Modi said. The chief minister today inaugurated...

BEIJING/NEW DELHI: Two Indian traders, under police protection in the eastern Chinese town Yiwu, returned to Shanghai on Wednesday night after Indian consulate officials and Chinese authorities worked together to free them. They had been in illegal detention by a group of Chinese traders since mid-December after the owner of their trading firm disappeared with large amounts of money owed to the Chinese. The release of Shyamsundar Agarwal ...

NEW DELHI: China today promised to provide adequate safety to Indians on its soil and said the recent incident in Yiwu will not be allowed to influence age-old friendly ties between the two countries. Giving this assurance to BJP MP Tarun Vijay, Chinese Ambassador to India Zhang Yan promised his best efforts to send back home the two traders who were recently attacked by locals in Yiwu city. "We are working to improve...

NEW DELHI: After the ugly episode of two Indians being tortured near Shanghai , China on Wednesday promised adequate safety to Indian nationals there as it initiated criminal proceedings against five locals suspected of being involved in the act. The assurance was given by Chinese ambassador Zhang Yan to external affairs minister SM Krishna and a senior official of the ministry during his separate meetings, after which the Indian side...

NEW DELHI: Chinese Ambassador Zhang Yan today got into a spat with a journalist over a wrong territorial map of India, during which he yelled "shut up" at the scribe. The map of India minus some parts of Kashmir and Arunachal was distributed by a state-owned Chinese company TBEA at a business function. Apart from Zhang, the event was attended by visiting Chinese Governor of Xinjiang province and senior officials from Ministry of...

VADODARA: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said China was keen to extend its cooperation with Gujarat in context of booming economy and ongoing industrial development. "Zhang Yan, Chinese High Commissioner to India, during his meeting with me in Gandhinagar two days ago, had expressed his desire for cooperation with a progressive state like Gujarat in economic and industrial sector along with cultural relations," Modi said. The chief minister today inaugurated...

NEW DELHI: After the ugly episode of two Indians being tortured near Shanghai , China on Wednesday promised adequate safety to Indian nationals there as it initiated criminal proceedings against five locals suspected of being involved in the act. The assurance was given by Chinese ambassador Zhang Yan to external affairs minister SM Krishna and a senior official of the ministry during his separate meetings, after which the Indian side...

NEW DELHI: The large-scale employment of Chinese workers for business projects here could soon be a thing of the past, with only 1,800 of them having applied for conversion of their business visas to employment visas ahead of the October 31 deadline set by India for the mandatory visa switch. The government has made it clear that all the Chinese citizens who had entered India on a business visa only to get employed with projects here would either have to leave India before October...

AHMEDABAD: The India China Economic and Cultural Council (ICEC) will launch its Gujarat chapter in Ahmedabad on August 26. Zhang Yan , Chinese ambassador to India, will visit the city for the launch, said Jagat Shah, chairman of Gujarat chapter of ICEC. This will be ICEC's eighth office after it was set up in 1997. It has eight full-fledged offices in Delhi, Beijing, Mumbai, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Nantong. This will be Yan's first visit to Ahmedabad and he is...

NEW DELHI: Ahead of its premier Wen Jiabao's visit, China on Monday cautioned that its relations with India were "very fragile" and needed special care and guidance from the government and the people at large to prevent a debilitating verbal war. "China-India relations are very fragile and very easy to be damaged and very difficult to repair. Therefore, they need special care in the information age," the Chinese envoy to India, Zhang Yan, said at a round...